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Submission + - Flat-earth daredevil Mad Mike Hughes dies in rocket launch (bbc.com) 2

JoeRobe writes: Multiple news agencies are reporting that "Mad" Mike Hughes, daredevil and flat-earthier, died in a rocket launch in a California desert. From the BBC: "With the help of his partner Waldo Stakes, Hughes was trying to reach an altitude of 5,000ft (1,525m) while riding his steam-powered rocket, according to Space.com.
In the video of the launch, a parachute can be seen trailing behind the rocket, apparently deployed too early, seconds after take-off."

Comment Slashdot: Dice sponsored attacks on news websites (Score -1, Flamebait) 197

"Like Digg, it seems more and more legitimate businesses or non-profit organizations are being targeted by Dice Holdings, Inc. in attempts to disrupt and monitize their users. Anonymous Coward has posted a press release condemning these efforts. Quoting: 'These attacks are performed without informing the userbase and are targeted at users associated with politically motivated movements such as "FUCK BETA" While this AC does not condone or endorse and actively forbids any illegal activity on its servers we encourage discussion on all topics including political and social commentary. It is apparent now that engaging in such topics with an opinion contrary to that of Alice Hill is sufficient to make people a target for monitoring, coercion and denial of access to a decent site design. The released documents depict Dice operatives engaging in social engineering of Slashdot users to entrap themselves by encouraging the target to leak details about their location as well as wholesale attacks on the Slashdot servers hosting the network. These attacks bring down the Slashdot network entirely affecting every user on the network as well as the company hosting the server.' One of those tactics applied by Dice Holdings, Inc. is the DDOS, which (perhaps not so) coincidentally, is what their suspects are accused of. Is this irony or hypocritical?"

Comment Re:A little thin on tech detail (Score 1) 43

A the math for a neural network accelerator chip is indistinguishable from the math for graphics. It's all the same multiplying vectors and matrices. And most of the work is done up front in training the neural network, the results of which can be distributed to computers with processors of lesser power. If qualcomm is going to get a couple of teraflops on a single core then power to them.

Comment Re:A little thin on tech detail (Score 1) 43

Not a helpful answer. There is no information anywhere on the web on whether these are continuous or discrete neural networks. As far as putting it on the chip, if it is a discrete neural network, then there is no advantage over a cuda enabled neural network running on an nvidia tesla. It is just Malibu Stacy with a new hat.

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